Arun Chandrasekaran

Arun Chandrasekaran

Distinguished VP Analyst

Arun Chandrasekaran is a Research Vice President and Agenda Manager at Gartner, where his research focus is on providing strategic advice to CIOs and IT leaders on infrastructure agility, with an emphasis on emerging technologies such as containers and serverless computing, public cloud IaaS/storage, Hadoop/Spark platforms, machine learning infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructures. He has a strong blend of technical and business skills and is a leading speaker on topics such as cloud computing, infrastructure agility and artificial intelligence. He has rich international experience and cultural understanding, having lived and worked in five countries on three different continents.

How to Select the Right Cloud Management Platform for Your Public and Private Clouds?

Cloud management has increasingly become a challenge for organizations using public cloud in addition to their existing data center. Organizations aim for the adoption of a unified management approach, but the market continues to propose a number of disjointed solutions that are purpose-built to address different problems. This session will provide a framework for comparing and selecting cloud management platforms (CMPs) and tools.

Monday, 06 May, 2019 01:45 PM|Monday, 06 May, 2019 02:30 PM

Ask the Expert: Best Practices for Running Containers in Production

Containers can help enterprises modernize legacy applications and create cloud-native applications that are scalable and agile. However, the container ecosystem today is immature. This session will help Infrastructure & Operations leaders mitigate the challenges of deploying containers in production environments.

This session will provide an update on the current state of Containers, Kubernetes and Microservices. This will include an analysis of the technology, the vendors that make up the ecosystem and the associated products. Additionally, the issues that enterprises are facing will be discussed. Finally, the session will also discuss how the technology and the industry will evolve over the next three to five years.

Strategic technology trends have significant disruptive potential and set the stage for innovation over the next five years. Companies must examine the business impact of these trends and adjust business models and operations appropriately or risk losing competitive advantage to those who do. These are trends that IT cannot afford to ignore.